by Tim Harrington | Nov 8, 2024 | All Classes, Maths, Maths Leaders, News, Newsletter
This week has seen a return to school, full of eager faces excited to see one another again and pick up our learning again after our half term break. This half term, our problem-solving strategy focus is Working Systematically. This means, when solving problems in...
by Tim Harrington | Oct 25, 2024 | Maths, Maths Leaders, News, Newsletter
This afternoon, Peggy Angus and Riley Class came together to problem solve in maths. Their focus was collaboration as they needed to ask questions to discover hidden patterns from the opposite team. Children enjoyed working in a different class, with different...
by Tim Harrington | Oct 24, 2024 | All Classes, Maths, Maths Leaders, News, Newsletter
This half term has seen huge success and participation with our weekly TTRS competitions. Weekly class winners and top 3 children awards have seen a wide range of participation throughout the key stages. Here are some of the highlights:
by Tim Harrington | Oct 16, 2024 | All Classes, Maths, Maths Leaders, News, Newsletter
Last week, children throughout the school focussed on the strategy ‘working systematically’, to solve problems with unfamiliar contexts. Children are linking their learning dispositions such as resilience and articulate to explain their mathematical...
by Tim Harrington | Oct 9, 2024 | Maths, Maths Leaders, News, Newsletter
This week children throughout the school developed their strategies to think of rules that always enable them to win the game of Nim-7. Teachers and support staff also enjoyed exploring strategies during maths meeting this week. Other year groups engaged with problem...
by Tim Harrington | Sep 16, 2024 | All Classes, Maths, Maths Leaders, News, Newsletter
Last year, we signed up to be a Problem Solving School with Nrich to support our children to think deeply and strategically about maths and problem solving in a fun, engaging and collaborative way. This year we are focusing on set a skills each half term, our focus...
